A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

ExploreLearning has launched an iPad version of Reflex, its math fluency tool. Reflex uses game-based instruction and practice to reinforce math facts in all four operations. The self-paced program is ...

Procedural fluency or conceptual understanding--math educators have debated for years which is more important. I sided with conceptual understanding until my colleague Angela McIver helped me see the ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. When Kelly McNamara, a fifth-grade teacher in the Burrillville School District, Rhode ...

Dr. Gina Kling has served the mathematics education community in a variety of ways throughout her career of more than two decades: as an author and developer of K–3 math curriculum materials, as a ...